The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-04-20
Letter from Burlington.
BURLINGTON. April Is. 1887.

BURLINGTON, April IS, 1887.
Editor Of the Wdtchmdn:-T The important
case of Knight and wife u.s. Smyth, which
has been entertaining the court and rabble
since the first Tuesday in April, came to n
head on Tuesday last, with verdict for the
plaintiffs of $40 and costs. The first YER
! dict was in the city court for 500; then in
county court for about $780, then the SUI
preme court set the verdict aside. Next
! the Jury did not agree and now II is decided
that the plaintiff shall have S175, and the
case goes to the supreme court again, and
! when and where it will end time alone can
determine.
THE CITY PosT-oFFICE.
1t begins to look some like a democratic
administration in this part of the earth.
| Postmaster BeCkwth IL turning the faithful
I" out to grass quite early and the interior
of the Office is now democratically inclined
| throughout save one mugwump. The car
rers are finding that they have grown old
in the service and one by one the places
that now know them will soon know them
no more until -. Still Mr.. Beckwth is
managing the affairs of the Office in a eau
tious and pans-takng way, and we get our
! duns as usual.
THE EVENING DAILY.
This ong-fet want has received little
renewed nursing since the Free Press got on
! its ear at the action of the board of alder
men, but as the Clipper and the Free Press
! are Ill harmony OH lllb SOltllu SuDJttb 1 dHl
satisfied it will blow over for the present
as the democracy have not the sand to start
and keep the breath of life in daily paper.
Possibly an evening democratic daily could
live, but it would have to be run close TO
! the wind and backed up with something
besides " best wishes, I" and that is about all
the democratic party rely upon in this
section.
MERCIFUL MAN THAT WAS MERC1FUL TO
HIS BEAST.
Recently one of our wealthy citizens was
called upon to go up higher. For years he
had been "dyspeptic," so to speak and his
family physician tells the following: One
morning, after had passed about the stOrmi-
est night of the season, interspersed with
| hail, tornadoeS, rain and all the ingredients
of a blizzard he met the doctor and said I:
81 had a bad spell last night, and should
have sent for you, but did not want John
to take the old mare out in the storm" The
doctor and his horse were of little account,
but he survived the night and the doctor
slept
THE FISH QUESTION.
see that the commissioners decide that
if l go to Canada and purchase pike, wall
eyed or not, and pay duties on the same, /
am not only liable to have my fish seques-
| tered, but am subject to a heavy penalty.
This may be good law, but good lawyers
don't believe it. The law, while iron-clad,
says that if ! am so caught it shall be pre-
SumptiUe evidence that they were caught in
Vermont waters; but when | hold up my
little hand and swear / bought the same in
Canada, show my receipt for duties paid-in
fact saw the fish caught, if need bel think
an ordinary justice of the peace would ac-
quit me, provided gave him the fish
THE BOARD OF ALDERMEN.
This august body still hold ont six to four,
and it now looks as if they were bound to
stick. OF course six aldermen are just as
good, if not better, than ten. Yet fear self
ish motives may cause them to sometime
neglect the greatest good for the greatest
number. During all of these "vexatons -
the Free Press and the clipper will stand by
the minority, as they too often do while the
Independent possibly may have his eye on
the Dog star and improve the golden Oppor-
| tunity. / see the editorial force of the In
| dependent has been REINFORCED with the
classic countenance of H w. Love, who is
to make this city his future home, read law
with Mr.. C. j. Alger and be admitted to
the bar when the clouds roll by.
WHAT'S IN A NAME?
| am assured it is history that even gov
ernors at times make mistakes. Every
body knows who has stopped at the Van
Ness, this city, that about the first thing the
genial landlord has to say is: " I'll hitch up
and | want you to 60 down to my farm and
see my herd of Ayrshires," and what l.. S.
Drew don't know about Ayrshires is not
written. He has made all kinds of cattle a
study from boyhood, and when the governor
was looking about for "cattle man " to
serve on the newly -appointed commission
he designated l.. A. Drew of this city. Now
everybody knows Lume." 4. Drew and
Lem" $. Drew, but l.. A. received the
appointment and l.. S. still holds the fort
at the Van Ness. But then, it is all in the
family.
THE LAST SENSATION.
L., ~, w.
member that at the last legislature the
gentleman from Charlotte, aside from being
down on railroads and other like organiZa-
tons, offered a bill disqualifying bears from
meandering about the state. The bill OF
course became law, but two black bears
last week left their mountain home, in
direct violation of the wishes of Representa-
tive Higbee, and proceeded to make them
selves at home in and about the sheep
yards of Charlotte. All the militia were
ordered out, but the bruins concluded to
try the ice and crossed over to the other side
and now | presume are feeding on Workers
If this was intended as an aifront at the
great interstate legislator, the bears should
be brought back and made to apologize.
WALT WHITMAN.
This name may seem to have no local sig
nificance, still it has. Mrs. G.. l.. Hyde OF
this city is his own sister. Mrs. Hyde is an
artist of some local celebrity, and at times as.
sumes to write for the the press Mrs. Hyde
is, to certain extent, a personation of Walt
On the twenty-second anniversary of the as.
sassination of Lincoln Whitman spoke at
Madison square theatre, of which Major Pond
said: " 1t is the most magnificent audience
| ever saw-not a single dead-head in the
whole house," and there were present such
men as James Russell Lowell, John Hay
w. D. Howells, Mrs. Mary Mapes Dodge
f. G.. Stedman, John Burrows, Edward
Eggleston, and many others of like world
wide reputation. Mr.. Whitman visited this
city several years ago. but believe there is
a slight estrangement now between brother
and sister,
HOME PROTECTION.
Last week / spoke of the way the Bald
win Manufacturing Company was being
crippled in the shipment of its refrgera-
tors to the far West, from whence it has
large orders. Monday Taft & Morgan, the
largest manufacturers of doors, sash and
blinds in the state, We're compelled to dis
charge about fifty of their men on account
of high freights. Heretofore they have had
and now have, large orders from the West,
many of their goods going to the far West, and
they have made several shipments to Aus
tralia via San Francisco. Now it is inn
possible TO fill any order to be shipped any
distance. The probabilities are that when
navigation opens many shipments from this
city, destined for the Pacific coast, will be
taken by boat to Montreal. and then shipped
by the Canadian Pacific, which is more than
anxious to secure heavy shipments of freight,
/ Tho infaratatn laW foil of hnoui n C